To get your laptop running like a champ, I would replace the hard drive with an SSD of the same size or larger, reinstalling all your software and the Catalina OS to take advantage of it. YouTube videos will keep you right if you are not familiar with how to do such upgrades. That's why these machines are so useful even today: they are ideal for upgrading at home. A brand-new 2012 machine would perform well with its then-current OS and software and would continue to do so for many years until beginning to be 'left behind'. There has been eleven years of serial, evolving complexity between what would work, new, in 2012 and what will work now as new. Your perception of what 'should' work out the box is not a realistic one. These later Operating Systems (Catalina et al) are optimised for SSD storage, and not for the earlier kind of storage that you seem to have in your MacBook Pro 2012 Yep, I'd agree that Catalina is not suited to your ancient spinning 500GB hard drive.
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